Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith Essays on Late Ancient Christianity

Author:

Clark, Elizabeth

Year:

1986

Pages:

448

ISBN:

0-88946-529-0978-0-88946-529-9

Price:

299.95

Winner of the Adèle Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship.
Treats women in the context of the early Christian world: ascetic renunciation and feminine advancement, female monasticism, and patristic exegesis of the story of Eve and Adam and the Song of Songs.

"Without doubt Prof. Clark's sympathies are with the feminine views of the matters in question, but her scholarly competence precludes all forms of petty partisanship." - J. den Boeft in Vigiliae Christianae - A Review of Early Christian Life and Language

". . . brings together some of the papers which, over the last decade, have made Elizabeth Clark an authority on patristic writing in its social context." - Journal of Roman Studies
". . . feminist but always well measured and grounded in a careful analysis of her sources. Her familiarity with patristic sources and hagiographic writings is impressive." - Mystics Quarterly

"The book belongs in any library collection on the period, as well as in women's studies collections that attend to history." - Critical Review of Books in Religion 1992